_ 303 _ Item: To the interpreter of this kingdom, a Portuguese, who is paid from the income of this customs house through an instruction of Our Lord the King, passed through the Governor Martin Afonso, nine leques, which are four hundred and eighteen xerafins, thirteen candils, which make one hundred and twenty-five thousand five hundred and ninety reals, at the rate of seventy-five azars a month. …………………………………………………………………… 125,590 reals Item: To the interpreter of the customs house, a Brahman, seventy-five azars two and half candils, which are thirty-five xerafins, which make ten thousand five hundred reals. ……………………………………………………………………..10,500 reals Item: To the man whose job it is to visit the foreign quarters on the other bank, whom I have just ordered to supervise the goods arriving in the convoys, to note them down and draw up a register to bring to the factor and officers, so that the said goods are not stolen, thirty thousand reals a year upkeep. …..………..……………………………………………………….30,000 reals
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